grayt.ead.0001-mss.0049Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0049#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.epld[Epitaph on a Child]Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies1884Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 209-210
Written in mid-June 1758 at the request of
Thomas Wharton to commemorate his eldest
son Robin who
died in April 1758.
First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. I, 126, from the
transcript made by Alexander Dyce.
mss.0049poems.epld[untitled][1758?]1autograph fair copyBound PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's
Odes), 22
Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS)MOLISmith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 37, 82Jones, Thomas
Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph
Manuscripts", VI. 20(a) epitaph on a
child, 181Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29
November 1845), lot 624(?), 11, Sotheby's sale (12 August 1847),
lot 89, 27, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851),
lot 53(?), 41, Sotheby's sale (4
August 1854), lot 228(?), 69W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 9Nelson, Christine, "extra-illustrated copy of
Gray's Odes". E-mail to the editor, 14 November 2006
Autograph fair copy, here untitled but endorsed 'Epitaph on a
Child' in an unidentified hand, bound into Gray's copy of
Odes (1757).